Short Elementary School Poems

in elementary school
the bookmobile
a weekly escape...

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How so lovely to meet him
Elementary school teacher
Same so lovely smile on his nice face

Saino type of poem. It is not in Poetrysoup list of poems forms, so I selected "I do not know"....

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It could have easily been 
a cowboy bar, or rock concert,
crowded subway train filled,
elementary school stilled
by crazed mind, anger filled;
clutching weapon of mass destruction,
on any street in America....

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Once long ago on a school visit to the zoo
My little one had just begun elementary school
High up on a tree branch sat a lonely owl
With his huge eyes shut, he could pass for any old fowl
Suddenly, he opened them and questioned, “Who? Who?”...

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creativity is my strongest suit
I have many talents,
this is my all-time favorite of them all

I am a cartoonist,
a painter, a poet, an author
creativity has aided me in every endeavor

I’m led by this character trait every day
in my job as an elementary school counselor
...

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I-ntensive
L-earning
W-ith
A-ll
S-cie ntific

E-fforts
L-ets
E-very
M-ind
E-njoy
N-otable
T-hinking
A-s
R-emarkable
Y-early

S-tudies
C-learly
H-ave
O-pportunities
O-f
L-ife

Topic: ILWAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Grand Alumni Homecoming (February 24) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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I remember when the little buggers
hit the elementary school -
the apologetic tone
of the school nurse
as she informed me by phone,
And the hate I felt
when I went to pick my daughter up
and the teacher said,
“Take her home, clean her up, and have her back in the morning.”
… and she wasn’t even dirty....

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I will miss some of my teachers,
Sitting with my friends.
On the bleachers,
Till the very end.

In elementary school,
We see are friends almost all day.
Which is pretty cool,
In the suns hot rays.

My teachers that I had,
I will not forget.
They were not that bad,
I even had Mrs. Burgett.

By: TR...

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Creative lively zany and fun
Joyful free-spirited, lively, quick
Spiritually aware, faithful and true
A poet, cartoonist and painter
Wife, mother, grandmother, animal lover
Elementary school counselor, virtual teacher
Patriot who raised a soldier
One who can entertain herself
An orphan now at sixty-eight....

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There are now nooks and crannies in elementary school classrooms.
Places for children to slither and slide into
When they need a break
When they despise multiplication facts
When they are tired of reading
When I was a child I would have spent all day in one of these crannies
Ignoring the teacher as hard as I could...

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I will miss elementary school,
Even though it was not cool,
I will learn to get along,
Without school and a gong,
Friends I will hug,
Squish like a bug,
Some friends are smart,
Enemies are tart,
Others are not,
Like a fish the will get caught,
We did not fight,
We did what was right,
Teachers I have liked,
For high school I am psyched.

Leah B....

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I used to be hard on my daughter he told me.
My girlfriend has pointed out I am soft now.
He has worked in an elementary school for ten weeks.
Things that used to seem big, seem miniscule now.
I know exactly what he is talking about.
Things that bother many people are not seen at all by us,
The ones who are in the trenches with three hundred children a week....

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I will miss all my friends
When school finally ends
Sitting at the lunch table
Telling lots of stories and fables

All the laughing and goofing around
You know to stop when you hear that sound
Then you hush
And start to blush

I will miss these things about Elementary school
All the times we acted like fools
Now its up to the big High school
No more will we act like fools...

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She wore thick leggings
our childhood polio albatross
mass Sabin vaccine sauce
body snatcher ritual
fixed beautiful legs.

(In early elementary school she wore braces most of the way through 6th grade. We all went to the nearby JHS to drink the approved Sabin vaccine. By 7th grade she had healed. She had beautiful, working legs.) She has recently, physically passed. This is in remembrance of her.)...

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You wonder at the sense of it all
And living where guns have the final call
And going about your daily lives
Places you in danger not disguised

May god accept the little ones taken in an act so cruel
With their teachers who have passed by gunman’s rule
How many lives taken by the gun 
For guns and murder to not to have won?

Vale to the innocents Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas 25/5/22....

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The competition is on at work.
Elementary school teachers
Most in their own queendom
Two in kingdoms
We are discussing job interviews
One question was really silly, Mrs. Bee told us.
“What was the last book you read?”
Made her really mad, 
as she had not read
a book since college’s
required reading.
She is in her forties.
Brilliant question if you ask me
As our goal is to create 
lifelong learners....

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Child's Play

Dug out thin dusty worms
In cemented elementary school sandbox
With white plastic spoon
Until then, forgot warms were a thing

In high school
Rain and wind
Brought plump snaky critters
Crawling on their bellies
Rising from the coarse ground coffee
Couldn't squash them
Closest I've gotten to nature



Free Verse
By Marckincia Jean
12/01/17

 
 

Free Verse
By Marckincia Jean
12/01/17...

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Why do I even care about you?
I try not to, but it’s so hard.
The way you look at me makes me think twice.
Do you love her or me?
You’re her boyfriend, but you give me that look that makes me think you want me.
We have been friends since elementary school.
Friends tell me that deep down in his heart he knows he has feelings for you.
Tell me do you?
That’s all I need to know.
To keep me from thinking about you all the time....

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What I'll miss about elementary school will be recess!
Fun in the sun, I love this place,
I have to confess.
Recess was the the best space.
I'll miss my old teachers,
and all their awesome features.
I'll miss all my coaches and their advice.
They were all very helpful and nice.
To high school I go,
All my talents and skill I will try to show.
I'm leaving you now, for this I know.
The next chapter in my book....Ready Let's Go!

By: C. Thomas...

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Representative Jamaal Bowman sets off a fire alarm in the House Chamber
     rips down the 'Emergency' signs
        heads for the hills
  Doesn't apologize 'til the police nab him ... then AOC whines
        'Jamaal was confused'

  A clearcut case of 'white privilege' turned on its head
     Even KINDERGARTENERS know not to pull an alarm that's red!
  Perhaps Jamaal never attended elementary school
     While AOC thinks she can play us all for fools...

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Today in my role as elementary school counselor
I am allowing the third graders all kinds of freedoms
It is easier than me teaching a counseling lesson
I hope the principal does not choose today to evaluate me
I am giving myself a break after taking two sick days
Slowly oozing myself into my role
Children are delighted
They are given eight choices
Any computer program approved by their teacher
I am their hero
All is well
Unless my supervisor steps in...

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A cute little elementary-school-era poem composed by an emerging poet in 1963...58 long years ago -


Season of bonfires, kindling leaves,
Leaves freshly fallen from skeleton trees.

Leaves that were young once, but now have grown old,
And soon will be buried beneath frigid snow.

The season of sadness that comes once a year,
To shove away summer, and summon a tear

In the eye of a flower confronted with death,
Oh, cursed be thee, Autumn, till my dying breath…...

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What I'll miss most of all,
I'm not quite sure about.
It could be when my friends and I had a ball,
Or when we would laugh and shout.

It could be having only 3 or 4 teachers a day,
Or playing 4-square on the playground.
Instead we'll be sitting in the classroom writing an essay,
Waiting until we hear the bell sound.

One last thing before I go,
I will also miss all my teachers.
They have made my experience grow.
Goodbye now, maybe I'll see you in the bleachers.

BY: S. S....

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First we start out, little and small
Over the first few years we learn to act alone
Relatively life was amazing 
Ever so slowly we turn to bigger kids
Very carefully we go through elementary school
Everyone was so naive, so friendly
Ready to grow up yet?

You turn into a teen, and everyone is growing older
October never was the same again for us 
Ugly, a word used and abused 
Now in college your life goes by fast, you have kids, a life
God knows when we will experience what we had, youth....

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•	I’ve never been involved with a book club
•	I’ve never won or participated in an actual spelling bee
•	I don’t read or write everyday
•	I struggled with reading comprehension in elementary school
•	I signed up to volunteer at a library, but I never came in
•	I tried pirating a book once, didn’t work so well
•	I’ve burned books
•	I enjoy using “text speak” 
•	I never took honors or AP English in high school
•	I had a year off of English classes my sophomore year of community college...

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